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A navigation app meant to help users avoid “sketchy” neighborhoods has sparked strong reactions, including accusations of racism.

SketchFactor, which was created by New York entrepreneurs Allison McGuire and Daniel Herrington, is a crowd-sourced navigation app that “shows that relative sketchiness of an area,” the company said. The app, which was unveiled Thursday, is now available in the Apple App Store.

‘Sketchiness,’ of course, is very subjective as the company itself notes on its site: “What does sketchy mean? Sketchy means a number of things. To you, it may mean dangerous. To someone else, it may mean weird.”

If you’re looking to squeeze a few hundred bucks out of your iPhone with the original “Flappy Bird” app still installed, you’d better hustle. The creator of the original game, Dong Nguyen told CNBC on Wednesday that the wildly popular game, whose only objective was to guide a bird through pipes, is coming back in August.

If you were still playing “Angry Birds” at the start of the year, you might not have known about “Candy Crush Saga” from developer King.com Ltd. But there was almost no way to avoid the game by the end of the year. For example, go back and scroll through your Facebook page and see how many times someone invited you to play the game.

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